Liverpool v City 1st leg CL Qtr Final post match

[Sparkys-Army]

It could be an atmosphere like Hamburg on Tuesday. Winning against the scum will give that joy and belief and carry on the fight against Liverpool.

Nothing to lose, everything to gain.

 

[Roachy]

Watching the highlights now on bt....really shocking how poor we applied ourselves in that first 45mins. The game from liverpool wasnt that great to be honest watching this again

It was standard footy with a bit of intensity threw in. Even now I can't believe how bad we were. It was appalling from the entire team. Our fans who went to that fucking shit pit with them vile, deformed scouse wankers deserved a lot better than that. Joke of a performance.

 

[davymcfc]

It could be an atmosphere like Hamburg on Tuesday. Winning against the scum will give that joy and belief and carry on the fight against Liverpool.

Nothing to lose, everything to gain.

I certainly hope so. Good attitude to have. I’ll be there get behind the lads.

 

[cadds92]

One area of our game that really annoyed me last night was our lack of pressing. It was nowhere near our top standard.

I can understand some nerves and some stray balls coming out of that as a consequence, but our pressing game surely doesn’t require you to not be shell-shocked to do.

It’s effort and organization and something that should be offered up by us as a minimum.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

One of the most painful things is that we lost because players couldn't take the pressure.

I don't think Pep s system helped, but at the end of the day, he's set out a game plan which means you absorb their kamikaze pressing, you let them do it, the game is incredibly scrappy and its unpleasant but you survive it, and then you punish them when they get tired.

That would have worked if not for the fact that some of our players seemingly can't take the pressure.

Sané giving the ball away for the first goal...He must have had it so deeply ingrained in him that the one thing he doesnt do is give the ball away when we've got 9 men up for a corner. He panics and does just that.

The third goal is a shambles in so many ways, but Otamendi must know that if he is going to carry the ball out of defence 30 yards, he can not lose it cheaply. He panics and does exactly that.


IMO Pep's biggest mistake here was adopting a strategy that relied on cool heads prevailing, with players doing what they usually do and accepting 30 minutes under pressure.

I'm reminded of last season when Pep said the Monaco defeat was his fault because he didn't convince the players to play his way. He couldn't give them enough belief to do what he said and think things would turn out OK.

I think the same happened yesterday.

True, the only good i see that came out if this game is a massive lesson learnt to our players - especially the younger ones

 

[Delphacito]

Everything that happened with our team was completely self-inflicted. Moreover, rather than losing because of tactics (even though it certainly did it part), it was the players' mentality. If they didn't concede the first goal in THAT stupid way, I am confident we would've won. But our players screwed up and got rattled completely. Most of all it even rattled Dave (wtf?). As soon as Dave got the ball poked from him from behind like a youth player, I know our night is done.

 

[paulsimpson]

It was standard footy with a bit of intensity threw in. Even now I can't believe how bad we were. It was appalling from the entire team. Our fans who went to that fucking shit pit with them vile, deformed scouse wankers deserved a lot better than that. Joke of a performance.

True
But on another thread you'll see what a bus attack can do to players psychologically . It had an effect Im sure of it

 

[TCIB]

One of the most painful things is that we lost because players couldn't take the pressure.

I don't think Pep s system helped, but at the end of the day, he's set out a game plan which means you absorb their kamikaze pressing, you let them do it, the game is incredibly scrappy and its unpleasant but you survive it, and then you punish them when they get tired.

That would have worked if not for the fact that some of our players seemingly can't take the pressure.

Sané giving the ball away for the first goal...He must have had it so deeply ingrained in him that the one thing he doesnt do is give the ball away when we've got 9 men up for a corner. He panics and does just that.

The third goal is a shambles in so many ways, but Otamendi must know that if he is going to carry the ball out of defence 30 yards, he can not lose it cheaply. He panics and does exactly that.


IMO Pep's biggest mistake here was adopting a strategy that relied on cool heads prevailing, with players doing what they usually do and accepting 30 minutes under pressure.

I'm reminded of last season when Pep said the Monaco defeat was his fault because he didn't convince the players to play his way. He couldn't give them enough belief to do what he said and think things would turn out OK.

I think the same happened yesterday.

Good post, agree with it verbatim.

 

[eternalred]

I had a Scouser reply to me before, one post in 2 years, bit like a good un he did.

You weren't paying attention. Look again. One post in twelve years.

(Now three posts in twelve years; and all replies to you; you should feel special.)

 

[Bert Trautmanns Helemet]

On the basis of that performance the result would be similar but I believe we would raise our game against the others we seem to play as if in a trance when we go to visit the Dippers.

There is absolutely no doubt we are now the scousers cup final. They raise their game significantly above their norm when they play us.
They believe they have the Indian sign over us and in a lot of respects they do and it is a problem for us the longer it goes on. They now love
playing us.

I honestly don't believe we would have performed as badly as we did last night if we had played any of the big three.